Project Documentation
Project Title: Indiana Adolescents� Opinions about Sex Education
Author: Tanisha Watkins, PhD(c), https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-3857
Project Description: This project is the archival package for Tanisha Watkins� dissertation entitled 
Indiana Adolescents� Opinions about Sex Education. This mixed methods dissertation explores Indiana 
high school students� 1) recommendations for the content and instruction of school-based sexual health 
education and 2) their perceptions about receiving SNS-delivered sexual health information from local 
health departments when school-based comprehensive sexual health education is unavailable. Data 
collection occurred from 2017-2018. In total, there were eleven focus groups conducted with 57 
participants and 142 survey respondents.
Package Contents: This dissertation package consists of the following documentation: 1) eleven audio 
focus group recordings and transcript 2) data codebook and thematic map 3) IRB application 4) tables 5) 
data collection instruments 6) proposal information 7) publications submissions and drafts. In total there 
are 51 files (excluding README files), 29 published and 22 restricted files. Please refer to the Master 
Index List for more information about each type of data included in this package. 
Who may use: This data verse offers a wealth of benefits that can be useful to graduate students, study 
participants, academics, as well as many other. This open access format particularly benefits the research 
community and participants who partook in the research study. This data verse provides them open access 
to research materials and manuscripts in an accessible manner on their own accord with compromising 
participants identity. In addition, given this dissertation uses an emerging qualitative analysis method, 
other doctoral students and advisors of doctoral students may also find this work useful in determining 
how to properly use the VSAIEEDC qualitative analysis model. This work may also be useful for 
instruction and teaching materials. 
Metadata: Baggit was used to package all the content in this dataverse and thus each file contains a 
checksum algorithm as a part of its metadata. The information will help assess if the files have become 
corrupted over time.  
Terms of use: Research participants in this study were under the age of 18 and strict measures were taken 
to protect their identity, therefore certain data (focus group recordings and focus group transcripts) in this 
package will be restricted to only certain audiences. The remaining data in this package however will be 
govern by an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Users are allowed to copy and redistribute the 
material in any medium or format. In addition, users can remix, transform, and build upon the material for 
any purpose, even commercially. Users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and 
indicate if changes were made to any of the materials in use. You may make changes in any reasonable 
manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. 
File naming conventions: The naming convention for this dissertation portal uses a meaningful, consistent 
and logical rationale to name files so they may be located, identified and retrieved in a timely manner.
Please use the following citations to properly cite this work:
To cite the entire dataverse containing all files, please use the citation below: 
Harris, Tanisha L., 2019 �Indiana Adolescents� Opinions about Sex Education,� Retrieved from 
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/indianasexed


For tables use:
Harris, Tanisha L, 2019, "Dissertation Tables about Indiana Adolescents' Opinions about Sex 
Education", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MOONRM, Harvard Dataverse, V2

For proposal documents use: 
Harris, Tanisha L, 2019, "Dissertation Proposal Indiana Adolescents Opinions about Sex 
Education", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XZPZTI, Harvard Dataverse, V2

For data collection instruments use: 
Harris, Tanisha L, 2019, "Dissertation Data Collection 
Instruments", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/R9W6NN, Harvard Dataverse, V2

For datacoodebook use: 
Harris, Tanisha L, 2019, "Dissertation Codebook for Indiana Adolescent Opinions about Sex 
Education", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IOZZHW, Harvard Dataverse, V2

For IRB protocol use: 
Harris, Tanisha L, 2019, "Dissertation IRB Protocol for Indiana Adolescent Opinions about Sex 
Education", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9DOSCZ, Harvard Dataverse, V2

For dissertation manuscript documents use: 

Harris, Tanisha L, 2019, "Dissertation Manuscripts", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8GD2VO, Harvard 
Dataverse, V2



